{"id":6953,"date":"2011-01-25T17:04:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T22:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=6953"},"modified":"2011-01-25T17:04:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T22:04:27","slug":"taco-bells-shocking-ingredients-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=6953","title":{"rendered":"Taco Bell\u2019s Shocking Ingredients Exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=6953 \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6954\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"taco bell header\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/taco-bell-header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By Geno McGahee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A lawsuit filed recently by the Montgomery, Alabama-based law firm Beasley Allen, is contending that Taco Bell, a popular Mexican fast food eatery is not using \u201cbeef\u201d for their \u201cbeef tacos,\u201d and that appears to be the case.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The USDA defines meat as something that consists of at least 40 percent of actual meat (flesh of animals), but Taco Bell\u2019s \u201cbeef\u201d is at the 36 percent mark, according to reports, and that has people screaming: \u201cWhere\u2019s the beef?\u201d It also has the customers wondering just what they\u2019ve been eating all of these years. Thankfully, nobody has screamed \u201cSoylent Green is made out of people\u201d yet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rather than beef, these food items are actually made with a substance known as &#8216;taco meat filling,&#8217; &#8221; the lawsuit says.<\/p>\n<p>With 36% actual beet, the remainder of the Taco Bell&#8217;s meat filling product consists of &#8220;extenders&#8221; like water, &#8220;Isolated Oat Product,&#8221; wheat oats, maltodrextrin, soy lecithin, maltodrextrin, anti-dusting agent, autolyzed yeast extract, modified corn starch, sodium phosphate and silicon dioxide. Still hungry?<\/p>\n<p>All these years Taco Bell has had the reputation of presenting less than great food to the people and now the plot thickens and this may force the eatery to raise the standards and actually present meat instead of some strange mix, heavily flavored with taco seasoning to give the appearance of real beef.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=1371\">Advertise Now On RSR<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/BookStore\/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=13198\">Purchase Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Secret-Forris-Day-Jr\/dp\/B004GLZ4YG\/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1\">Pre-Order the Horror Thriller FAMILY SECRET Now!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Geno McGahee A lawsuit filed recently by the Montgomery, Alabama-based law firm Beasley Allen, is contending that Taco Bell, a popular Mexican fast food eatery is not using \u201cbeef\u201d for their \u201cbeef tacos,\u201d and that appears to be the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2371,2372,2373,271,2369,2370,2375,2374],"class_list":["post-6953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-beef","tag-beefy","tag-fat-beefer","tag-food","tag-soylent-green","tag-taco-bell","tag-what-is-it","tag-yummy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}